Ox-yoke



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W. J. AGK'ERMAN.

0X YOKE.

N0. 448,104. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

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OX-YO KE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,104, dated March 10, 1891.

Application tiled December l0, 1890. Serial No. 374,212.. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM JOEL ACKER- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Malcolm, in the county of Langlade and State of I'Visoonsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in OX-Yokes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it lappertains to make and use the sam e.

This invention relates to oX-yokes, and has for its object to provide a cast-metal yoke of usual configuration that will be light, cheap, strong, and adjustable to different-sized animals.

The improvement will be more fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a yoke embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the yoke, the bows being in position. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the yoke on the line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line Y Y of Fig. 2.

The yoke A is of usual configuration, and is composed of the stock P, which is hollow, and the removable collar-piece D, the latter being held to the stock by the clip E. The clip E is held in place by passingbetween two pairs of lugs f and f near the top and the bottom sides of the stock and on both sides thereof. The lower end of the clip is extended below the lower cross-plate c and bent to form tho loop c', which receives the draftring c2. The bowopenings c a are surrounded on the inner side of the stock loy the tubular extensions o ce', which project up from the lower side of the stock and extend flush with the top thereof and coincide with The corresponding openings in the said top.

collar-piece D is made removable, so that it can be replaced by other similar pieces of a greater or a less height tosuit the team, and v is held from lateral displacement by lugs d, which project therefrom and enter corresponding openings inthe stock. The edges of the cap-plate are out away at g opposite the neck-cavity in the yoke to permit the ends of the zinc plates G,whioh line the said neckcavities, to loe bent over the edges of the stock. The Zinc plates are provided. to prevent chating of the animals neck.

The bows I'I may be of the usual form and secured to the yoke in any desired manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A cast-metal yoke composed of a hollow stock having bow-openings, and having tubular extensions on the innerside of the stock in line with the bow-openiugs and extending flush with the top and the bottom sides of the stock, and having openings g in the top side opposite the neck-cavity, and the zinc plates fitted to the neck-cavities and having their ends bent over the sides of the stock into the said openings g, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the hollow castmetal stock having bow-openings, and having portions cut from the edges of the top side at g opposite the neck-cavities, of the bows H and the zinc plates lining the said neck-cavities of the stock and having their ends bent over the edges of the said stock, substantially as described.

Intestimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM JOEL AOKERMAN.

Witnesses:

T. H. WARD, JAS. MCHALE. 

